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`vmagent` exposes `vm_app_uptime_seconds` metric at `http://localhost:8429/metrics` - this metric show the number of seconds since `vmagent` start. @jakobdalsgaard , it would be great if you could check this metric next...

`vmrestore` performs incremental restore (i.e. downloads only new files from backup) only if the directory pointed by `-storageDataPath` contains data from the previous `vmrestore` invocation without any modifications. This means...

> Is there a way that would allow me to look inside the backup (with something like grafana) without it modifying the backup? The only way now is [to restore](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmrestore.html)...

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`vmagent` accepts data at `http://vmagent:8429/api/v1/write` via Prometheus remote_write protocol. This protocol uses [Snappy compression](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snappy_(compression)), so `vmagent` should properly decompress the data at `/api/v1/write` path. It is likely there was a...

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Thanks for the detailed feature request! The following questions must be addressed before proceeding with automatic discovery of vmstorage nodes: * vmstorage layer doesn't support downscaling yet, i.e. it is...

@hekmon , thanks for the answers! Such a conversation really helps to understand better possible solutions to the original use case! > In a classic DNS SD env, having a...

FYI, VictoriaMetrics gained support for automatic discovery of vmstorage nodes at `vmselect` and `vminsert` via SRV records starting from [v1.83.0](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases). See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#automatic-vmstorage-discovery). Closing this feature request as done.

There is no special syntax for referring regex capture from one label filter in another label filter. But this filtering can be done with the non-trivial combination of [label_replace](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#label_replace), [label_join](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#label_join)...